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Stick to It. Bush teaching is not always that simple; Frontier College instructors have had squabbles with union leaders and with management, sometimes have to roar out lessons above the din of a bunkhouse card game. One teacher told Principal Robinson last year: "Many times this summer I've hated your guts." But the school has few resignations. Most teachers, says Robinson, "stick to it no matter what. The result is respect...
...ninth straight month, consumer prices held steady in March at 123.7 of the 1947-49 index. This news from the Labor Department seemed proof enough that the U.S. is not in the grip of any new inflation, but it was almost drowned out last week in a rising din over the dangers of inflation ahead...
...Colonial Room of the Richmond Hotel in Augusta, 30 newsmen gathered with TV and newsreel photographers. The President walked in, his eyes moist. In the din he said: "What I have to say concerns Secretary Dulles." A reporter asked: "What was that, Mr. President?" The room hushed, and Ike repeated: "It concerns Secretary Dulles. I had a conversation this morning with him, and in view of the findings the doctors have made . . . he has definitely made up his mind to submit his resignation." The medical findings, the President added, "are not of the kind, so far as I am aware...
Many listeners complained about the faulty acoustics, saying that the music merely added to the din. A thoughtful aficionado objected that classical pieces and jazz were "too involved" to be enjoyed over a meal. Another House member warned against "trying to satisfy all the appetites at once...
...well benumb the entire Shakespeare-Bacon controversy, the author has a tribune tongue-lash the Senate: "You, Romans, friends and countrymen, have heard me before. I come not to honor Rome but to bury her." Author Caldwell ends her story as Lucanus meets Christ's mother, in a din of paraphrased Hail Marys and purple Passion ("She stood against the background of the hot and brazen mounts, and it seemed to him that she had grown very tall, and that she was clothed in pure light, and that her face beamed like the moon when it was full...